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Poem from The Metaphysical Salvage & Scrap Yard (Blink)

Kenneth DiMaggio

A rose is just
the blood booting
back in a syringe
in Hartford a burg
that is just a steady
supply of battlefield
ready-to-kill but
more likely get
maimed or die
soldiers for
its country

Ring    ring

How many angels
can dance on top
of a minimum wage-worked
cash register?

Wail      wail

How many ambulance
sirens before you can get
taken to a hospital in
a city whose semi-literate
high school graduates
are always battlefield ready

—set

and just like that
—you’re gone

And the indifference
that some still pray to

blinks another day

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